Anarchic update news all over the world - 20.03.2019

Today's Topics:

   
1.  Britain, freedom news: Callout for organising the Anarchist
      Festival 2019 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #292 - Anonymity: Macron
      attacks freedom of expression (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  alas barricadas: The Federation of Athenaeums and
      Neighborhood Libertarian Groups was born in Madrid (ca) [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  afed.cz: Mazinerie No. 3 - Review of zin linking art and
      hardcore subculture [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  Britain, London Anarchist Federation: Open meeting 6 April
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL - Clash Mars, Against
      "green" capitalism: youth must go to the assault ! (fr, it,
      pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1





Following the success of last year's decentralised anarchist festival, we're going to do 
it again, but this time with events not just in London, but across the UK and Ireland. 
---- The idea is simple: groups and venues put on their own programme of anarchist events, 
centred around the long weekend of 31st May to the 2nd June 2019. The programme is 
collated by us on our website and social media. ---- www.anarchistfestival.wordpress.com 
---- www.facebook.com/anarchistfestival ---- www.twitter.com/anarchistfest---- Struggling 
to think about what would be a good thing to put on? You can look at last years listings 
to see what kind of stuff happened last year., but don't let that limit you! We welcome 
events on anarchism, it's history, ideas and activity; as well as topics of interest to 
anarchism such as ecology, workplace organising, mental health, feminism etc. We will 
reject events that are racist, misogynist, transphobic or are otherwise oppressive.

If your event is in London and you would like it included in the programme please let us 
know about it by emailing us at anarchistfestival@riseup.net

If your event is NOT in London (anywhere else in the UK or Ireland) and you would like it 
included in the programme please let us know about it by emailing us at 
nationalevents@riseup.net.

Please also contact us at those email addresses if you have a venue for use, but no events 
in mind.

DEADLINE ALERT! Please be sure to submit your event by 1st May 2019 for inclusion in the 
programme. Any event submitted later than this date will not be included.

Hope you can get involved - see you on the streets/ in the social centres!

Check out the leaflet below and feel free to print some out to put up in your local 
library/ university/ bookshop/ community space. If you'd like the PDF please email us and 
we'll send it over.

https://freedomnews.org.uk/callout-for-organising-the-anarchist-festival-2019/

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In recent releases, Emmanuel Macron talked about banning anonymity on the Internet by 
claiming that it would help fight against harassment. But is it a good method ? Or would 
it rather limit freedom of expression, and censor minorities ? ---- On January 18, during 
one of his " big debates ", Emmanuel Macron had said he wanted a " gradual lifting of all 
anonymity " . After a back-pedaling of Mounir Mahjoubi, the secretary of state in charge 
of digital who was trying to clarify the position of the president (who would have liked 
to limit this anonymity only for participatory democracy), Patatras: Emmanuel Macron put a 
layer on February 7, going further: " I do not want anonymity on internet platforms 
anymore " [1]If, at this stage (as in the case of state neutrality for newspapers), the 
presidential project still looks rough, this did not prevent a majority MP and 
spokesperson from On the Move, Laetita Avia, to take advantage of the release of the word 
of victims against the harassment in the affair of the " League of lol " to put on 
twitter: " The anonymity on social networks encourages a feeling of impunity for those who 
allow to harass, humiliate and insult. The law against hate on the internet will better 
raise this anonymity when these crimes are committed " . What does it matter, that in this 
case, the stalkers have, for the most part, not at all anonymous.

Anonymity, a real problem ?
It is, moreover, a rather recurrent element in a number of cases of harassment, 
homophobic, racist, misogynist, transphobic, anti-Semitic, etc.: It's not so much 
anonymity that frees up speech as, no offense to those who constantly talk about " 
well-being " And complain that they can no longer say anything, homophobia, racism, 
misogyny, transphobia and anti-Semitism, which unfortunately remain rather uninhibited. In 
fact, anonymity is very often relative: many people on Facebook use their name of civil 
status, which does not prevent them from harassing or insulting. Even when there is a use 
of a pseudonym, anonymity is often relative: in some cases, we know very well who the 
person is (which is especially true when it comes to colleagues, acquaintances , family 
members, etc.), and even when this is not the case, most sites have the means to identify 
the person in case of prosecution (IP address, mail, not to mention the fact that these 
platforms are increasingly insisting that they be provided with a phone number). If the 
possibilities of surfing anonymously on the Internet exist (with Tor, for example), the 
platforms like Facebook or Twitter do everything to discourage their use and to have the 
maximum of data on their users. Not for the sake of transparency or to limit harassment, 
but because they are theirbusiness model : have the most information about their users, 
even if it is questionable.

What is certain, however, is that the use of a pseudonym is a real opportunity for part of 
the population, who does not necessarily want his parents, colleagues, his current or 
future employer or even her friends are aware of everything she can tell on Facebook, 
Twitter, forum or blogs. And it's not so much to harass as to avoid harassment, 
homophobia, etc. A young homosexual may have more difficulty speaking about his questions 
or finding support via the Internet if he knows that his parents or classmates may fall on 
it and identify him. It's even worse for trans people, especially because an important 
part of any transitional journey is often to choose a new name, which initially is not 
recognized by the state. In fact, the policy of "real name " imposed by Facebook has 
mainly allowed the harassment of many trans people who did not have official documents in 
their first name to show the police Facebook. On the issue of sexism too, in a number of 
very masculine areas, women prefer to have a neutral or masculine pseudonym to avoid 
sexist harassment, harrowing drag, and so on.

I have nothing to hide ...
The use of a pseudonym also makes it possible to have testimonials of a certain number of 
professions compelled to the reserve or even to secrecy (lawyers for example). Not to 
mention trades or activities where the use of a pseudonym is widespread: artists, writers, 
etc. Obviously, the use of a pseudonym can also make it easier for trade unionists or 
workers in a company to express themselves by limiting the risk of being fired, such as 
this employee of Amazon dismissed for supporting the vests against the company. [2]

It is therefore not for nothing that doxxing is a fairly common practice among stalkers. 
It consists of searching for and disclosing information about your private life, such as 
your name, address, telephone number, etc. This is often the crossing of an additional 
step in the level of violence, which sometimes led victims to move.

The revelation of identity, a practice of harassment
The lifting of any form of anonymity would be a blessing for all these stalkers: no need 
to search, it is the government itself that would make available this information (or at 
least the name of civil status, but from of it, between the directories and other 
registers it is very often possible to obtain an address or a telephone number) !

It is of course possible that the unfortunate exits of the president and a spokesman of 
the majority are due to ignorance and incompetence, that it is finally only to misuse the 
use of Internet and harassment. However, let us not be so confident: the reminders to the 
teachers, the will of the government to extend the obligation of neutrality, the recent 
releases of the same president of the republic on the " neutrality " of the press imposed 
by the State, the passing of a law strongly restricting the right to protest, the law on 
the secrecy of business all go in the same direction: to restrict the freedom of 
expression and to reinforce the powers of those who want to muzzle it.

Lise (AL Lyon)

[1] " Macron:" I do not want anonymity on internet platforms " " on Developpez.com .

[2] " An employee of Amazon dismissed for supporting the" yellow vests "against the 
company " , Le Monde

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Anonymat-Macron-s-attaque-a-la-liberte-d-expression

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Message: 3






On December 15, 2018, the Federation of Athenians and Libertarian Groups of Barrio de 
Madrid was set up in the ESLA-EKO of Carabanchel, Madrid. Its programmatic purposes are: 
1) Accumulate the knowledge generated by the daily action of federated collectives; 2) To 
extend the anti-authoritarian and self-management practices in the neighborhoods and towns 
of our territorial scope when focusing on the struggles; 3) Practice mutual support 
between groups, reinforcing the different projects and their extension; 4) Conduct of 
joint campaigns; and 5) Give collective responses to the concrete problems that arise in 
daily life. ---- Any group that inspires its militant action from assembly, horizontal, 
anti-authoritarian and self-management postulates, independently of the activity that it 
develops, may be part of the "Federation".

We want self-organization and confrontation. We want the organization through the 
confluence of collective structures, participatory and libertarian, where the conflict can 
be discussed, softened and agreed.

We seek the confrontation with the "system", with its two sides of the same coin: 
exploitative capitalism and oppressive state, to build a revolutionary discourse, clarify 
positions and make pedagogical work a common dynamic; also to support us emotionally and 
materially.

We refuse to be elites, vanguards, permanent committees; we want an organization that is 
built from below, that converges in citizen action, from libertarian athenaeums, 
neighborhood groups, free schools, feminist collectives, permanent forums for debate, 
committees for the unemployed, etc .; in order to be the leaven that broadens what these 
basic organisms are already putting into practice. In short, we seek to give the widest 
possible visibility to all the fronts that are open in the neighborhoods and in the 
villages to which revolutionary syndicalism does not reach.

In this way, sharing resources, experiences, dialoguing, we create organization and with 
it we make converge the individual energies dispersed in collective nuclei with a capacity 
of influence that contributes to take steps to the long-awaited revolution.
The social reality that we have had to live prevents the development of experiential 
alternatives of all kinds. Capital, with its ubiquity, delimits us and crushes us. We are 
facing the greatest accumulation of power ever known by humanity, well organized, capable 
of manipulating the citizenry to the point of turning it into an amorphous mass of tame 
individuals. To combat this "power" we organize ourselves: together we are stronger.

When we have sufficient resources and strength, we will have to give them utility to 
promote social transformations that involve as many people as possible. For this we need 
to equip ourselves with organisms that from the local, the immediate, the immediate, can 
integrate and coordinate with global objectives, illuminating the path to a culture that 
recovers solidarity and the common good as pillars of that new society that is about to be 
born; We want to replace the reactionary neoliberal individualism with a solidarity 
collectivism that humanizes our relations.

We have an arduous task ahead. Nobody can say that it is not exciting.

Acracia nº 0 https://drive.google.com/open?id=1RY3MqY6AKOzrTu2oafmC190HtcPfM1u5

http://ramgetafe.blogspot.com/2019/03/el-dia-15-de-diciembre-de-2018-se.html

http://alasbarricadas.org/noticias/node/41404

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Message: 4





At the turn of last year and this year, the third number of the non-traditional zin 
Mazinerie saw the light of day . It is the "one woman show" of the Lakka singer, who also 
put her name in the name of the zine. Her creative intention is unambiguous, namely to 
connect the worlds in which she moves. And at the same time to enrich them with 
information, views and impressions of a slightly different dimension. To release another 
zine number from the inner need to shout into the world, to communicate, to share ... and 
to release the animal from the chain, forcing it to create something and to participate in 
something. But it is not about self-representation so typical of today's atomized society 
of late capitalism. Pages Mazinerie are an invitation for a wide circle of friends who 
have something to say, whether words or artistic expression.

Mazinerieit combines especially the world of art, hardcore subculture and engagement of 
all kinds. While declaring that "the target group does not exist", the target audience of 
the readers is obvious. To bring the content closer, it's probably best to take it nicely. 
Immediately at the beginning, Mary's enthusiasm for roaring in the band is evident from 
the lyrics. And to activism. Collective 115, Simon, describes how we all "can organize 
together for a better society". Everything looks so easy. Join a group of like-minded 
friends, meet each week to set up a political group. And you wonder how easy it is to be 
an activist... in Prague. It's a pity that this recipe is hardly anywhere else anywhere 
else, or there is a thousand times more effort behind it with a hundred times more limited 
impact. I had to sigh here a little over another well-intentioned text, entitled "Feminism 
and veganism makes sense to connect". Any emancipation movement and progressive tendency 
makes sense to link. But it should never be at the expense of rape concepts. To talk about 
"social inequalities of women, animals, and other marginalized groups," makes things just 
bearish.

And to art and through cans to the question of what needs to be saved. Interview with 
Krepi, who carries bands in Europe. And another with Kara, who resides in Sweden and 
answers, among other things, a very interesting question about whether racism or sexism is 
worse. This is followed by a telling narrative about the (without) thought bubbles in the 
real world and the inability of opinion confrontation. And from here in the moss you can 
repeat the zine fest, which took place last April in Prague's Eternia (write down the 
diaries that the next year is already at the door, on the 4th of May in the same place). 
He continued to think about the time of postfact and the problems of communication with a 
strange remark at the end of pride and national identity. Pictures, pictures, pictures, 
pictures and one funeral. There is also some practical advice and experience - money is 
the enemy, so how to survive, if they don't spare them. Maybe there'll be some duck 
onCalendar 2019 . Before coloring a coloring book, enjoy the surreal story of an older 
date. Then plant the carrot, bake the cake and enjoy the dark tones of the reviews.

Mazinerie No. 3. 76 pages in B5 format. 100 CZK. Write about zin at fiserova.ma[a]gmail.com.

https://www.afed.cz/text/6966/mazinerie-c-3

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Message: 5





We're having a meeting for people interested in getting involved in anarchist organising 
in London on 6th April 2019.
Come along, meet some people and share some ideas!
More details tba.

https://aflondon.wordpress.com/

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Message: 6





The call for a " Global Climate Strike " on March 15th is an important first step. The 
movement has already begun in Belgium, Sweden and Australia, where many of its high school 
students have taken to the streets to defend their future. ---- For an international and 
democratic movement ---- The call for a " Global Climate Strike " on March 15th is an 
important first step. The movement has already begun in Belgium, Sweden and Australia, 
where many of its high school students have taken to the streets to defend their future. 
Several figures, such as Greta Thunberg, have been erected into muses by the media. We 
must refuse this personalization: it can only soften a struggle that must be radical, 
collective and democratic. ---- Tear down 'green' capitalism ---- The system tries to 
train students and students in the society of tomorrow, accelerating the disastrous 
consequences of a harmful economic model. Durability of the consumer society, 
agribusiness, gigantism, excessive digitization and restriction of freedoms and social 
rights are on the agenda of "green" capitalism. It is possible to refuse that. But it 
involves confronting capitalism as such. This is how we could redirect the choices of 
production and organization of territories. Resignation, as well as "return to the land" 
and "alternative" life, when disconnected from the collective struggles and realities of 
the majority of the population, have no real impact.

Take action
Against the destruction of our environment, politicians can not be trusted. Individual 
changes in consumption, if they are not absurd, will not be enough to provoke the 
necessary political shock. To win, let's organize general assemblies in high schools and 
colleges, inform our comrades an

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Contre-le-capitalisme-vert-la-jeunesse-doit-monter-a-l-assaut

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